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Pecan-lovers: you’ll love these ultra-creamy mini cheesecakes swirled with caramelized pecan praline and topped with a white chocolate praline glaze. There’s more pecans in the sweet and salty cookie crust too! There’s no denying that mini-sized is more delightful, not to mention better for holiday entertaining, which is why these …

by Jessica on October 4, 2018 0 0 I’ve never been so excited about a cocktail! This red apple sangria is giving me all the heart eyes. Aside from this drink basically LOOKING like October, this red apple cider sangria is one of my most anticipated drinks for fall. It’s …

by Jessica on September 30, 2018 0 0 [This post is sponsored by McCormick! I’m so excited to show you some of my favorite dishes over the holiday season!] This almond crumb cake is tugging at my heart strings. One glance at this and I’m in heaven. It’s basically half …

AUGUST 10, 2018 HOW DO YOU measure fairness? Fundamental fairness in American democracy seems easy, at least as the US Supreme Court interpreted it in 1964: one person, one vote. But this simplicity is misleading. When voters are allocated to districts, the districts can then drastically affect the composition of …

AUGUST 7, 2018 ONE OF THE NUMEROUS cringe-worthy moments of the Trump administration was the president’s first cabinet meeting, where, in a scene reminiscent of North Korea, everybody present was expected to express gratitude to the Great Leader. One of the few who refused to participate in the orgy of …

JULY 7, 2018 ON JUNE 11, 1931, Alain Locke received a parcel in Penn Station. Locke, then a philosophy professor at Howard University, was passing through New York on his way to Europe for the summer. He’d been planning to drop in on the managing editor at Viking as part …

JUNE 14, 2018 THE SHORT BOOK For Two Thousand Years is the kind of eccentric narrative that may be best approached without a lot of foreknowledge. On the surface, it’s a record of creeping anti-Semitism cast as a work of historical fiction, but there’s something elusive and category-busting about this first-person …

Farmer brought a scientific approach to cooking, taught countless women marketable skills, and wrote a cookbook that defined American food for the 20th century. Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With Overlooked, we’re adding the stories of remarkable people whose deaths went …

JUNE 10, 2018 ONE OF THE MAJOR points Dr. Lucy Jones makes in her new book The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) is that Southern California has never really experienced a major earthquake. There was, of course, the Sylmar–San Fernando …